The effect of sex on the mean and variance of fitness in facultatively sexual rotifers

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 656-664

  Becks, L ^a,b   Agrawal, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachionus calyciflorus; Cyclic parthenogens; Evolution of sex; Mean fitness; Variance of fitness

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA;

BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 79951767230     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02199.x     Document Type: Article

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